A snowy station yard, South Brent
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The photograph on this page of A snowy station yard, South Brent by Adrian Platt as part of the Geograph project.
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A snowy station yard, South Brent
Image: © Adrian Platt Taken: 18 Dec 2010
South Brent was once a busy junction station on the South Devon Railway mainline to Plymouth. It was closed in 1963 but Image provides a snapshot of it in 1958. Some of the infrastructure remains, the signal box is on what remains of the island platform, and the goods shed is now a busy dental surgery, see Image The rest of the yard is used for parking and has a small factory in one part. Snow is not new here; in March 1891 a drama occurred when the GWR's premier daily express from Paddington to Plymouth, nicknamed "The Zulu", was stranded here for 4 days in what was called The Great Blizzard. Greg Wall's Book of South Brent published by Halsgrove in 2005, has an interesting account from newspaper reports of the time. See Image for the same scene.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.427922
Longitude
-3.834148